Almost Friday

It's almost Friday and even better, heading into a 3 day weekend; now if only i had some great plans ... . I really want to try salmon fishing this year, but i think it's too early in the season for river fishing. I believe the fish are still in the ocean, they haven't "balled up" since we haven't had the first rain of Fall. So much to learn, so many fish to catch.

I went out on an 8 hour combo trip with some friends a couple weeks back. It was fun to be away from work for a while, but of the nine friends of us on the boat we came away with 0 salmon. Yes, a fat goose egg, bubkis, squat, zilch, a whole lot of nothing. If it weren't for the fact that we did some bottom fishing (i caught 1 Black Cod) and picked up some crab pots i would have been o-fer. Of course there was a family on the boat with us with an annoying lady and a smoking husband who pulled in two salmon and quite a few bottom fish, including a Cabazon (sp ?) and a couple Ling Cod. Bass turds.

I finished D-Day by Stephen E. Ambrose the other day. What an incredible book. WWII is so fascinating to me, i'm glad that there is a good amount of writing about it. I'll have to write my thoughts about that sometime. I'm now onto another Stephen E. Ambrose book - Undaunted Courage. I had a little harder time getting into this one just because i don't know much about the Lewis and Clark expedition and in general i think i would have been ok not reading about it. But now that i'm most of the way through the book, i'm really enjoying it and considering going back and restarting just to pick up on more details that i skimmed over.

Working with Indians cracks me up (not Native American Indians, the Indians that are in India). I think the best term i've heard is when they ask something, they request that you "do the needful". I would really like to go to India sometime. I can't help but think of Seinfeld - "don't go to India, it is the only country that still has the plague".

Alright, i think the job i was watching is heading for success - i'm going to try get some sleep, but i'd bet at least a nickel that i'll get paged at least once more tonight.

It's almost Friday ...